> As you may know CIRA has been working with groups across Canada to > establish new IXPs.
wow! i thought there were a lot of ixps, torix, vantx, ... are these open, neutral, ixps, a la six etc? or big players trying to save the internet from itself? would some of the *local* providers in the areas who actually use the cira ixen care to report on the experience? > When we started this work, we didn't know that Vancouver already had > an IXP in depth research, eh? > We and BCNet are planning a town hall style meeting in late September, > tentatively September 26, to talk about the IXP needs of the Vancouver > area. why are all my alarms going off? randy